C O Rancho San Miguel: V E Leading By Example Thoroughbred Farms R In California S T by RUDI GROOTHEDDE O R Besides being one of the leading stallion stations in cisco,” continued Tom. “From a business point of view, that’s a Y both California and the nation, Tom and Nancy Clark’s big positive for us as we are able to service both markets. Rancho San Miguel also provides Thoroughbred breeders He added, “We’re also not that far from the Pacific and owners with the best possible care for their horses on Ocean, so we get nice cool nights from its evening breezes. this 250-acre facility that the New York-based couple Even during the summer, when it can get up to 100 degrees purchased in April of 2000. during the day, it cools downs into the 60s here for the horses, “The climate, the water and the strategic position which we think is very valuable. All of this makes for a attracted me when I originally looked at purchasing the natural environment that is healthy for the horses.” farm,” said Tom. “We then invested in new pastures, barns, Included among Rancho San Miguel’s most recent suc- equipment and housing, and also now have some exciting cesses have been the 2010 homebred stakes winner Money stallions who, most importantly, have been heavily sup- Lover, grade I winner and $2,390,556-earner Hystericalady, ported by their owners. Having nine top-class studs has whom they co-owned, and the dual grade I-winning been the biggest change here in the last couple of years. It’s millionaire To Honor and Serve who they bred in partner- a definite improvement.” ship and sold for $250,000 as a weanling. Tom has been around Thoroughbreds all his life after These achievements, combined with being filled to being raised on a farm, while Nancy earned a degree in Ani- capacity with more than 350 horses during the height of mal Science from the University of California at Davis each breeding season and having more than 120 youngsters before managing what is now Victory Rose Thoroughbreds. foal at the farm in 2012, position Rancho San Miguel as “We are committed to putting our money into the farm, one of the Golden State’s premier Thoroughbred facilities. into the horses, into the people; that’s the bottom line,” added A Fine Nine Tom, who tries to come out from the East Coast to visit Ran- For the studs at Rancho San Miguel, there is a large cho San Miguel at least once a month. breeding shed located in the center of a Nestled in the coastal foothills north- nine-stall stallion barn, with doors on west of Paso Robles, this San Miguel all of its sides, as well as an adjacent set location is ideally situated equidistant of six roomy paddocks. The breeding from the major racing centers in Southern area also features padded palpation and Northern California. “It helps us attract clients from Los Angeles to San Fran- Continued on next page ©Amanda Poore

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www.ctba.com CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 21 C O V E R Thoroughbred Farms S In California Cont’d. T chutes for the mares and foal boxes, plus the complex houses O the farm’s offices. R Comic Strip, Marino Marini, McCann’s Mojave, Y Onebadshark, Sierra Sunset, Slew’s Tiznow, Southern Image, Storm Wolf and The Pamplemousse were also all based at Rancho San Miguel for the 2012 breeding season, when they covered close to 220 mares between them. “When looking at standing a stallion, we look at conforma- tion, race record and pedigree, as well as owner support,” Tom said. “We usually can’t tick off all those boxes here in California, but by bringing a good number of mares to each of our stallions Comic Strip they can have a relatively good chance to succeed. Also core to our success is that we have had very high fertility rates because of the performance of the stallions and the knowledgable and professional staff who oversee the breeding.” Comic Strip Relocated to Rancho San Miguel for the 2007 breeding season, this 18-year-old son of Red Ransom (Roberto) has remained under the farm’s banner even though he has been standing at Gray’s Farm in Cottonwood since 2011, as he is the property of the farm and Dr. William T. Gray, DVM. Retired to stud in Kentucky in 2000, following a four-year-old campaign that included two graded stakes wins routing on the turf, Comic Strip originally moved to California for his third season at stud in 2002. Also a grade III winner at 1 1/16 miles on the dirt as a Marino Marini sophomore, he banked $965,474 from a 23-10-6-3 record before becoming the sire of the earners of more than $7.5 million. Among his 22 stakes performers are champion Bamboleo, multiple stakes winners Tornado Betty and Table Mesa, graded stakes-placed Press Camp and Iced Out, and Weewinnin who won last year’s inaugural running of the $200,000 King Glorious Stakes for two-year-olds at Betfair Hollywood Park. Comic Strip’s dam was Now That’s Funny, a winning daughter of Saratoga Six who has produced three other stakes winners, including the group III-winning sire Lucayan Prince and Silver Comic, a grade II winner and the dam of 2011 graded stakes winner Silver Reunion. “He’s a tall, rangy type of horse with good conformation,” McCann’s Mojave said Clay of the 16.2-hand dark bay who has 70 percent win- ners from starters and average earnings per runner of more As a racehorse, he was a group I-placed stakes winner in than $35,000. He stands at a fee of $2,500 Live Foal this year. Ireland as a two-year-old before his six U.S. starts in the Marino Marini Rancho San Miguel silks yielded an allowance win and Named after an Italian sculptor of the 20th Century whose runner-up finish in ’s grade I Malibu major subject was horses, this 2000 son of leading sire of sires Stakes at three and a trio of graded stakes placings at four in Storm Cat (Storm Bird) boasts 15 stakes runners amongst his California and Kentucky. His overall record stands at 16-3-4-4 five crops of racing age. Marino Marini’s fillies are led by last with $294,384 in earnings. year’s $200,000 Fleet Treat Stakes and 2011 California Cup Out of Waquoit’s grade I-winning millionaire Halo Juvenile Fillies Stakes winner Starlight Magic, while his America, also the dam of grade III winner Quick Temper, male offspring include dual 2012 black-type winner Shuda- Marino Marini boasts more than $5.5 million in progeny cudawudya and four-time stakes winner Hot Fusion. earnings, 72 percent winners from starters and average

22 CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 www.ctba.com C O V E first crop last year, including the $20,280-earner Go Mojave R Go whose only 2012 start was a victory in a maiden special weight race at Golden Gate Fields and Real Mojave Green, a S winner of four races in Mexico. With $86,943 in progeny T earnings, McCann’s Mojave ranked second among those sires O who retired to stud in California for the 2009 breeding season. R A debut winner at two in 2002, and a stakes winner each Y year from the ages of four to eight, he earned $1,513,565 from 12 victories and four runner-up finishes. After being voted the California Champion Older Male of 2004, when he won the Potrero Grande Breeders’ Cup Handicap (grade II) going at 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita, McCann’s Mojave won grade III races worth $150,000 each at Golden Gate in both 2007 and 2008; the All American Stakes in a Onebadshark new track record time of 1:50 flat for 1 1/8 miles and then the Berkeley Stakes in the penultimate start of his 35-race career. By dual champion Memo (Chi), a son of Mocito Guapo (Arg), out of Nordic Prince’s grade III-placed, 16-time winner Joni U. Bar, his five-year-old season included a win in the $250,000 California Cup Classic Handicap during Santa Anita’s Oak Tree Racing Association meet and a second place finish in the Triple Bend Invitational Handicap (grade I) at Hollywood Park. At seven, a victory in the $1,000,000 Sunshine Millions Classic at Gulfstream Park in Florida was another high- light for McCann’s Mojave, a 16.2-hand bay owned by a syndicate led by Santa Anita’s Director of Publicity, Mike Will- man. He stands for a fee of $3,000 Live Foal in 2013. “Mike is one of the great new clients we’ve got the last Sierra Sunset couple of years,” said Tom. “He has a lot of great relation- ships and contacts, and always speaks highly of the farm.” Clay added, “I like that McCann’s Mojave ran for a lot of years,” and Tom concluded, “He’s durable, but he’s also ver- satile. He won early sprinting, then succeeded at two turns, and retired sound. He’s what you want in a stallion.” Onebadshark Retired to stud in California six years ago, this dual stakes winner’s four limited crops to date boast 81 percent winners from starters and average earnings per runner of more than $30,000. Jaws ‘n Paws, a filly from his first crop, is Onebadshark’s leading runner with 10 victories, including a couple of 2012 stakes wins, and $243,215 in earnings to her name. By Diligence (Miswaki), out of Houston’s four-time winner Color Unlimited, he won six races from the age of Slew’s Tiznow two to six, including a track record-setting effort of :56.73 earnings per runner of more than $35,000 since retiring to seconds for five furlongs during the Solano County Fair at stud in San Miguel eight years ago. Vallejo as a juvenile. At four, Onebadshark won Pleasan- A statuesque gray who stands 16.1 hands, he was bred to ton’s Sam J. Whiting Memorial Handicap and Bay Meadows 44 mares last year and his 2013 fee is $2,500 Live Foal. Racecourse’s Big Jag Handicap, both $50,000-plus events “He’s a good size compared to a usual Storm Cat,” Clay said. held less than three months apart, and then ran second to “He has sired a lot of great looking foals and had a number the grade I-placed, dual graded stakes winner Weigelia in of very good runners.” the $150,000 Jack Dudley Sprint Handicap at Calder Race McCann’s Mojave Course in Florida. This multiple graded stakes winner got his stud career at In his 23rd and final lifetime start, a third career stakes- Rancho San Miguel off to a good start with six winners in his Continued on next page

www.ctba.com CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 23 C O V E R Thoroughbred Farms S In California Cont’d. T placing increased his earnings to $218,912. Onebadshark O relocated to Rancho San Miguel after the 2010 breeding R season and the 15.3-hand bay stands this year for a $1,500 Y Live Foal fee as the property of brothers Wayne Atwell and his brother Jim’s E-Racing.Com. “He’s a well-balanced, good-sized horse,” said Clay. Sierra Sunset In 2012, this winner of the 2008 Rebel Stakes (grade II) on dirt at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas was bred to 42 mares at Rancho San Miguel in his debut year at stud. A speedy son of Eclipse champion and leading California sire Bertrando Southern Image (Skywalker) and the dual stakes-placed two-time winner Toot Sweet, by Pirate’s Bounty, Sierra Sunset’s immediate family includes such standouts as the grade I winner Private Persuasion, 2008 Belmont Stakes (grade I) winner Da’ Tara and grade III-winning stallion Denis of Cork. At the racetrack, his 14 career trips to post yielded a bankroll of $459,696 from five wins, three seconds and a third. Besides his three-length victory in the $300,000 Rebel Stakes, he also ran second that year in Oaklawn’s $250,000 Southwest Stakes (grade III) as a three-year-old. At two, Sierra Sunset won a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Golden Gate before winning stakes races both sprinting and routing, namely the Bay Meadows Juvenile Stakes on dirt and $125,000 California Cup Juvenile Stakes on Santa Anita’s all-weather Cushion Track surface. At four, Storm Wolf he posted his third lifetime black-type win at 1 1/16 miles when defeating California champion Bold Chieftain gate-to- wire in the Alamedan Handicap on the dirt at Pleasanton in his second-to-last career start. The 2013 fee for this bay who stands 16 hands is $2,500 Live Foal. “This stallion is a great example of his owners (George Schmitt, Phil Lebherz and Al Mariani) giving him a great shot by putting their money where their mouths are, as they purchased a bunch of mares for his first season last year,” Tom said. “I think he’s one of the best looking Bertrandos you can find. He’s got a good-sized hip and I’m confident he’s going to throw some fast horses.” Slew’s Tiznow Also standing at stud for the first time last year was this The Pamplemousse grade I-placed dual stakes winner who earned $321,100 from a record of 14-4-2-1 during four seasons of racing. second in the Santana Mile Handicap on the all-weather Following a gate-to-wire, 4 1/4-length victory in maiden Pro-Ride surface at Santa Anita before closing out his special weight company going seven furlongs on dirt at career with a third-placed finish to 2009 Hollywood Gold Saratoga Racecourse in New York, Slew’s Tiznow placed Cup (grade I) winner Rail Trip in Hollywood’s grade II, second in the grade I, $560,000 Lanes’ End Breeders’ $150,000 Californian Stakes. Futurity at 1 1/16 miles on Keeneland Racecourse’s all- By Tiznow (Cee’s Tizzy), the two-time Breeders’ Cup weather Polytrack surface. Classic (grade I) winner and 2010 Eclipse Horse of the Year, As a sophomore of 2008, he then posted easy wins in out of the winning Slewpy mare Hepatica, he is a full brother both the $108,700 El Cajon Stakes on Polytrack at the Del to fellow stallion Slew’s Tizzy, a grade II and dual grade III Mar Thoroughbred Club and 1 1/16-mile War Chant winner. This is also the family of 2012 two-year-old group I Stakes on Cushion Track at Hollywood Park in a track record time of 1:40.34. Two years later, Slew’s Tiznow ran Continued on page 26

24 CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 www.ctba.com C O V E R includes the like of his group III-winning half-brother Thoroughbred Farms Black Bar Spin, the 2012 grade I winner Turbo Compressor S In California Cont’d. and multiple grade I-winning sire Jolie’s Halo. T Purchased and syndicated by Rancho San Miguel after O winner The Hangman (SAf), as well as 1985 Irish Classic his 2009 breeding season in Kentucky, the 16.1-hand dark R winner Al Bahathri and her 2004 English Classic-winning bay will stand for a fee of $2,500 Live Foal in 2013. “He’s a Y son Haafhd (GB), a promising young sire in his native land. bit more of a refined type of horse with a different body The dark bay has a fee this year of $2,500 Live Foal as type than most of the other stallions, not as masculine, but the property of Joseph LaCombe Stables Inc. “He has he also has good size to him” Clay said. Tom added, “We’re good length to him, and good conformation,” said Clay, excited about his first crop of Cal-breds this year.” while Tom added, “He’s a very handsome individual and Storm Wolf looks a lot like Tiznow.” During a period of just over two months in 2005, this Southern Image 2002 foal exhibited a high level of brilliance on the dirt Forty mares visited this multiple grade I winner in 2012, when he went from being a maiden to a being a graded not surprising considering that his progeny earnings stand stakes winner. Following his seven-length win in a maiden at more than $10.7 million from just four crops of racing special weight event at six furlongs in March, Storm Wolf age. Southern Image also has average earnings per starter of returned to Santa Anita for a victory by 7 1/2 lengths at the more than $42,000 and a dozen stakes performers to his same distance before a six-length triumph in the grade II, name, including last year’s Caulfield Cup (group I) winner $150,000 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes going seven Southern Speed and five-time graded stakes winner Cali- furlongs at Hollywood in May. brachoa, winner of the 2011 and 2012 editions of both the After one more start, he was retired to stud in California grade III, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap and grade III, with earnings of $147,840 from three wins in five trips to $150,000 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct in New York. post. Two years later, Storm Wolf relocated to Rancho San After winning the prestigious Malibu Stakes (grade I) in Miguel for the 2011 breeding season, while his first crop to his final sophomore start, his four-year-old campaign race last year already includes a winner. included wins in the $1,000,000 Sunshine Millions Classic, By Stormin Fever (Storm Cat), out of the Ecliptical stakes a third consecutive victory at Santa Anita in the grade I, winner Exclusive Rosette, who still holds a course record of $1 million Santa Anita Handicap and the Pimlico Special :57.31 for about five furlongs on the turf which she set in 1996, (grade I) in Maryland. Southern Image’s career record is Storm Wolf’s seven winning siblings include his full sister 8-6-1-1 and $1,843,750 in earnings. Misty Rosette, a grade I-placed, graded stakes winner. A 13-year-old son of Halo’s Image (Halo) and the unraced Dixieland Band mare Pleasant Dixie, his family Continued on page 28 ©Ben Poore

26 CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 www.ctba.com C O V year is $2,500 Live Foal. “We own him with a group of peo- E ple headed up by bloodstock agent Jr.,” Tom R Thoroughbred Farms said. “He’s big, he’s big, and his first crop includes some In California Cont’d. really good looking babies,” said Clay. “We’re very encour- S aged by that,” concluded Tom. T As the property of Marsha Naify’s Liberty Road Stables, Classy Care O the 2013 fee for this 16.1-hand dark bay is $2,000 Live Foal. Besides this impressive stallion station, Rancho San R “He looks like he’ll throw speed horses,” said Tom, while Miguel’s equine residents also benefit from the property’s Y Clay added, “He’s also well-balanced.” countless other facilities, including barns, pastures, paddocks, The Pamplemousse pens and related state-of-the-art equipment that all adhere to In 2009, a brace of easy graded stakes win by this gray the highest levels of cleanliness, comfort and safety. colt catapulted him into Triple Crown contention. After a All fully irrigated and ranging in size from half an acre to 2 3/4-length victory in a maiden special weight race going 10 acres, the farm’s more than 25 lush pastures, each 1 1/16 miles on Hollywood’s all-weather Cushion Track equipped with a shelter, provide the perfect home for its surface in December of his two-year-old year, The Pam- resident mares, foals, weanlings, yearlings, etc. plemousse dominated Santa Anita’s two grade III preps for “About three years ago, we spent a lot of money con- its (grade I), winning January’s necting all of the irrigation,” said Tom of a system that $100,000 San Rafael Stakes at one mile and February’s features fives wells, a collection pond and a reservoir. $200,000 at 1 1/8 miles by two and six “We have good water here, and plenty of it.” lengths, respectively. Under the watchful eye of the Resident Veterinarian at Scratched as the odds-on favorite for the Derby only Rancho San Miguel, Jake Lynch, DVM, the broodmares are a few hours prior to that contest, The Pamplemousse teased daily during breeding season, while palpations, ultra- unfortunately never raced again despite an attempt at a sounds, cultures, lavages and any other medical procedures comeback. With a record of 5-3-0-1, the earner of are done when necessary. Nurse mares and stored colostrum $208,280 was then retired to stud at Rancho San Miguel are also on hand as a precaution. For the maiden or open for the 2011 breeding season. mares, there are two stadium-lighted pastures and several A son of Kafwain (Cherokee Run) and the two-time barns featuring lighted stalls with runs. winner Comfort Zone, by Rubiano, he is a half-brother to Used only to foal out mares is a foaling barn compris- 2012 Betfair Hollywood Park stakes winner American Lady ing of nine spacious open-air stalls, bedded with straw and and is from the family of both the grade I-winning sire regularly sanitized, where mares and their foals are kept Stormello and last year’s Del Mar Derby (grade II) winner for 48 hours after foaling before being turned out in a My Best Brother. Standing at 16.2 hands, The Pamplemousse’s fee for this Continued on page 30 ©Ben Poore

28 CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 www.ctba.com C O V 2003. Armed with an Animal Science degree from Cal E Poly State University at San Luis Obispo, Amanda Poore R Thoroughbred Farms has gone from being an intern in 2004 to the farm’s Assis- In California Cont’d. tant Manager and Head of Marketing. S small pasture during the day, and brought in at night if the Kasia Tomaszewicz, who is from Poland and studied T chemistry and nutrition before working at a number of pre- O weather turns. The unit also includes a 2,000-pound hoist that can be used in the case of an emergency, such as a mare mier locations, including Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky, R has been with Rancho San Miguel since 2006. “She does a Y having difficulty foaling. Foal handling starts the day after the foals are born, while sick foals can take advantage of a great job with ground training, foal handling and sales stay in a couple of air-conditioned stalls located in one of prep,” said Tom of the Foal/Yearling Manager. two newer 10-stall barns. The Office Manager and Farm Secretary is Mary Ann On the sales prep and lay-up sides of the farm, attention Waiton who grew up in Colorado and joined the farm in to detail is all-important. Two round pens, the 60-foot one 2008, and Jorge Cruz is the Broodmare Manager. He started fitted with a six-horse Eurociser, help condition the sales working as a groom at Rancho San Miguel in 1995, and now horses by teaching them basic ground skills and building monitors the daily health of the horses while also keeping their muscle, while they are regularly groomed and bathed track of pasture rotations and assisting with all the foaling and also turned out every day. The farm’s recovery pro- procedures. grams for lay-ups utilize its stalls, pens—including the 90 Also among the farm’s horse staff, all of whom live either partially-covered turnouts that are used as holding pens— in the property’s houses or its one-bedroom and two-bedroom and small paddocks, while the progress of these horses is apartments, are Cecilio Cruz and Dogie Lujan. “Cecilio preps monitored by taking radiographs and using the ultrasound the stallions and, because he’s very meticulous and treats machine. them like his own kids, we often get great comments from Helping Hands people who visit the farm, saying how good they look,” said Last, but certainly not least, is Rancho San Miguel’s Tom. “Dogie is our jack of all trades, doing shipping, receiv- wonderful group of staff. ing, medications and the like. “Our staff’s ability and loyalty are amazing,” said Tom. “One of Rancho San Miguel’s distinguishing factors is “Many of them were here before I even purchased the farm. I that it has full time employees here twenty-four hours a was a customer here and because I had a good experience with day,” said Clay. “We always have someone watching over the great service, it was not just the farm that I was attracted to our horses,” he added, “while in breeding season, we have but the team and the leadership that was already in place. One additional people watching for the foaling. Dr. Lynch is on of the most important factors here is the depth of the manage- call and I’m here or one of our management team is until ment team, along with the experience of everyone else.” someone else comes to take over.” Clay Murdock joined Rancho San Miguel in 1987, and Tom added, “The core of our business is building rela- the Idaho native is now responsible for all the activities on tionships with both our staff and our clients. We’ve got the farm as its General Manager, while Washington State a professional staff here, and we are proud that all the University graduate Jake Lynch has been at his post since people who handle the horses live on the property. This ©Ben Poore

30 CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED • FEBRUARY 2013 www.ctba.com C O V E is a community, a family of highly trained and skilled now for California to compete with those who have R horsemen.” decided that the breeding and racing business should be Success No Less subsidized by the total gambling dollars. I don’t know how S When asked about Rancho San Miguel’s past, present long California can sustain this position and still say they T and future status as it pertains to the local Thoroughbred want to be in the game. That’s my message. We just can’t O industry, Tom Clark provided this detailed overview. compete under the present model. We are working under a R “We think of ourselves as survivors. We are committed different set of rules than every other state. Y to sustaining our business. We believe that we have seen “We continue to be in survival mode. We have to have the worst. We faced the problems everyone else did, espe- owners who will support their own stallions. The farm can’t cially receivables. A lot of people have just walked away do it all anymore. That’s the beauty of our stallions in that from their commitments, walked away from their horses. we have outside owners who are willing to support them. This has put a burden on not just us, but most farms. Obvi- What we have is a state with hundreds of rules, constituents ously the economics of breeding and racing in California who are not working together to benefit the whole of the are still under pressure. I’m not bullish, I’m not positive, but industry and an economy that is weak to begin with. These I think we need to continue the consolidation of farms to factors in place right now make it difficult for us to get sustain the industry. someone to invest in the industry. We want to sustain it but “The bonus and award programs have helped us and we don’t have unlimited resources to do that. However, we there are a lot of other people who have stayed in the busi- at Rancho San Miguel are as committed as we’ve ever been ness because of them, but they need to be improved even because I’ve been involved in horse racing my entire life more. Our policy is to sell everything we can, because and I love the sport so much that I want to help with ensur- we’re here to support the stallions. We’ve been lucky with ing its future success.” some babies at California’s yearling and mixed sales but, for the most part, it’s a labor of love. It costs us RANCHO SAN MIGUEL FACT-FILE just as much as in Kentucky to raise them, maybe even more, but we are often not getting the same Owners: Tom & Nancy Clark dollar for our horses here. General Manager: Clay Murdock “We’ve cut back with racing as we can’t support Resident Veterinarian: Dr. Joseph “Jake” Lynch, DVM both that and the farm. Some people can do both, Assistant Manager & Head of Marketing: Amanda Poore but we’ve had to make that choice because of the Foal/Yearling Manager: Kasia Tomaszewicz economy. We want to be very good at one thing, Office Manager & Farm Secretary: Mary Ann Waiton breeding great racehorses. At one point we were Broodmare Manager: Jorge Cruz training, racing and breeding, but now our focus is on Street Address: 1741 West 10th Street, San Miguel, California 93451 the breeding business, including more than a dozen Mailing Address: P. O. Box 741, San Miguel, California 93451 mares of our own. I think that’s the way to explain Telephone: (805) 467-3847 Fax: how we’ve changed the most in the past ten years. (805) 467-3919 E-Mail Address: [email protected] “It would be great if we could have the farms, Web Site: www.ranchosanmiguel.net racetracks, owners, trainers and other horsemen Services: Breeding, Boarding, Breaking, Lay-Ups & Sales Preparation come together to find some collective conclusion about what we should do to solve racing’s challenges. Stallions But that is hard, because each one of these groups Comic Strip (Red Ransom) ...... $2,500 - Live Foal has a different set of economics driving them, ones Marino Marini (Storm Cat) ...... $2,500 – Live Foal that often don’t have enough of the revenue going McCann’s Mojave (Memo (Chi)) ...... $3,000 - Live Foal back to the horsemen. Onebadshark (Diligence) ...... $1,500 - Live Foal “We are battling to attract stallions to California Sierra Sunset (Bertrando)...... $2,500 - Live Foal as a lot of times they are being sold for the kind of Slew’s Tiznow (Tiznow) ...... $2,500 – Live Foal money we just can’t afford. Slots aren’t the long-term Southern Image (Halo’s Image) ...... $2,500 – Live Foal Storm Wolf (Stormin Fever)...... $2,000 – Live Foal solution, but they would sure help in the short-term. The Pamplemousse (Kafwain) ...... $2,500 – Live Foal We need to get young people involved in coming to the races, having fun and coming back. We need to Horse Population – January 2013 create events and opportunities for people to come Stallions ...... 9 together and have a good time. Racing needs to be a Broodmares ...... 129 social thing. We’ve lost a large market share of the Foals ...... 6 gambling dollar and are continuing to lose market Yearlings ...... 78 share, so we have to decide if racing is going to sur- Two-Year-Olds ...... 4 vive or are we going to have to subsidize it like other Lay-Ups ...... 6 major states have done. I think it’s really hard right TOTAL ...... 232

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Ranked Among the Top Seven by 2012 Cal-Bred Earnings MARINO MARINI Storm Cat – Halo America, by Waquoit/ $2,500 LF • Combined 2012 progeny earnings of more than $1.6 million, with 2012 stakes horses including $200,000 Fleet Treat SW STARLIGHT MAGIC ($334,900), multiple $50,000+ SW SHUDACUDAWUDYA ($329,629), 5-time Stakes-placed Bleach Blonde ($308,444), etc. • Sire of 10% Stakes Horses, including MONEY LOVER ($159,706), HOT FUSION, SILVER SENSATION, Miguel’s Mascot (NTR), Queenie Marini, etc. • Sire of THREE 2013 allowance winners in ten days!

#2 California Freshman Sire by Winners McCANN’S MOJAVE Memo – Joni U. Bar, by Nordic Prince/ $3,000 LF (consideration to approved mares) • Record-setting, multiple Graded stakes winner of $1,513,565. • All-surface stakes winner with graded scores at 6.5F, 8.5F, and 9F (NTR) • Defeated 90 SWs including 54 Graded/Group winners and 15 Grade 1 Winners. • Sire of 6 winners from his first 12 starters!

Grade 2 Winner with Tactical Speed From a Classic Family SIERRA SUNSET Bertrando – Toot Sweet, by Pirate’s Bounty/ $2,500 LF • Four-time stakes winner with scores in Oaklawn’s G2 Rebel S. (99 Beyer), the $125,000 California Cup Juvenile S., the Alamedan H. at 1 1/16 miles (101 Beyer), and the Bay Meadows Juvenile S. by 8 lengths. • Precocious 2YO, breaking his maiden at 4 1/2 furlongs by 5L second time out! • One of two Cal-based sons at stud by recently pensioned BERTRANDO, California Leading Sire of 56 SWs. Out of a stakes-placed full sister to the dam of G1 Belmont S. winner DA’ TARA.

Record-Setting G1 Performing Multiple Stakes Winner SLEW’S TIZNOW Tiznow – Hepatica, by Slewpy/ $2,500 LF • Won on dirt and synthetic, including Del Mar’s El Cajon S. at one mile by 3 lengths and Hollywood Park’s War Chant S. at 1 1/16 miles in a record 1:40.34. • Saratoga maiden winner and 2nd in Keeneland’s G1 Breeders’ Futurity at two. • In his final start, posted a 102 Beyer in Hollywood Park’s G2 Californian S. • Full brother to Multiple Graded stakes winner SLEW’S TIZZY and 3/4-brother to the dam of 2012 Group 1 Winner THE HANGMAN.

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California’s #3 Active Sire by Average Earnings Index (AEI)

SOUTHERN IMAGE Halo’s Image – Pleasant Dixie, by Dixieland Band/ $2,500 LF • Over $10.7 Million in progeny earnings and sire of returning Grade 1 SW SOUTHERN SPEED, winner of the $2,802,425 BMW Caufield Cup (Aus-G1) by 1 1/2 lengths and who has won or placed in FIVE Grade 1 events. • Also sire of G1-performing, 5-time NYRA Graded SW CALIBRACHOA ($666,040, G3 Tom Fool H.-twice, G3 Bold Ruler S., G3 Toboggan H.-twice, etc.), 2012 $150,000 SW WINNING IMAGE ($390,837), returning SW PINK CANDY ($149,633), SW SOUTHERN FIREBALL ($171,789, NTR), etc.

Freshman Sire with First Winner from First Starter STORM WOLF Stormin Fever – Exclusive Rosette, by Ecliptical/ $2,000 LF • Graded SW full brother to G1-performing GSW MISTY ROSETTE. • Won 3 of 5 starts, including the G2 Lazaro Barrera Memorial S. by 6L in 1:22 1/5. • Posted a 104 Beyer breaking his maiden at Santa Anita and a 101 Beyer winning an allowance there in 1:09 flat. • Second-crop yearling brings 19-Times his fee at Barretts October sale.

First Foals Yearlings in 2013 THE PAMPLEMOUSSE Kafwain – Comfort Zone, by Rubiano/ $2,500 LF • Santa Anita Graded stakes-winning miler by 2012 Top-3 California Sire KAFWAIN. • Won 3 of 5 starts, including the G3 Sham S. by 6L (107 Beyer) and G3 San Ra- fael S. at one mile. • Out of a half-sister to the dam of 2YO G1 SW STORMELLO ($700,100) and 2012 G2 Del Mar Derby SW MY BEST BROTHER ($346,090). • Precocious female family of G2 Arlington-Washington Lassie S. winner SPECIAL WARMTH.

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